X-Men:First Class Early Reviews are Good--Really Good

Why? He's a fairly well established and respected actor.

Prior to this I never seen him in anything that I remember or call a real movie or show.

The Last King of Scotland (multiple acting nominations)
Atonement (multiple acting nominations)

The only thing I recognized him from on his wikipedia entry was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Mr. Tumnus, the faun). Even then, that doesn't give me to expect much from him in the role of Charles Xavier.

Those arent real movies/shows. I never heard of any of that stuff.

Multiple academy award nominations. Great casts, good directors. Your point was you didn't know he could act. It's not a surprise to everyone.

I thought you were referring to the characters' aesthetic views in terms of what they should be comfortable with, but as far as their costumes go, you should remember that X-Men came out when the modern superhero genre was still being established, and even the Marvel comics tout their sense of "realism," so it was doubtful they were going to go for their colorful looks.

The early interactions with Wolverine and Rogue threatening to sap Magneto don't count? Bobby chilling Wolverine's drink? Colossus defending Siren? Wolverine going berserk? Mystique posing as Wolverine and Stryker? "Holy ****?" Those are just a few of the fun bits in X2 I can think of off hand.

Not knowing the layout of the Weapon X facility kind of handcuffed him there, but as the movie went on you got the sense that Kurt was becoming more comfortable once he was around other mutants. Making him more light-hearted would have meant he'd demand more screentime, which wouldn't have necessarily been a bad thing, but they had already neutered one of main X-Men in Cyclops (not so much as in X3, though).

Well she was still at pre-X-Man level and was only along for the missions since the mansion was attacked. At the end of X2 we see that she's graduated, so to speak, but X3 was the one that failed to use her effectively.

THAT'S where I've seen that guy before! Yes, he was a good Leto II. How I wish SciFi had had the cahones to make God Emperor and Heretics of Dune...

I'm not sure there's any way in which X3 didn't fail. It admittedly may have failed so hard that anything I may have liked about 1 or 2 were blasted out of my mind.

I remember generally liking that, but it's been so long since I watched it that I couldn't specifically recall McAvoy in it.

Passed.

X3 was a bad movie. Even the hair was bad.

You need to go to the movies more....

Who had bad hair? Okay, DC's on deck next, Green Lantern Hold the X3 was bad comment till after the 17th. Transformers I don't know what to expect.

Uh everyone? Wovlerine, Pyro, Storm, transgendered Arclight, take your pick.

I mean, gah:



And another bad movie coming out doesn't stop previous movies from being bad.

Your too much. "Use your shockwave...."

It depends...
Mystique and Emma Frost are secondary characters at best. Angel and the government agent are tertiary or worse.

Do you consider Secondary major?
If so then how do you define major? Emma didn't need to exist in the movie cuz her character doesn't make a difference. Mystique was more about being talked to rather than talking...
Also both had very little over all screen time.

Talk in what way? i don't remember Mystique talking to Emma and very little and in a group setting to Angel.

Every time Mystique talked pretty much it was about how she looked save for the one time which was We should have call signs!

Emma on the other hand seemed to say stuff just to justify her being in the seen rather than her having any content...I mean even the scene where she is captured and interrogated by Xavier and Magneto she says very little and then they cut away before we see anything really happen.

So I'd say, no, no two major females...nor did they talk but then i could be mistaken. Like I said the female characters seemed more like plot devices than characters.



As far as Darwin... I thought he had interesting power concept that they could have played with and since he i guess died in the comics they could have done more with him without making fans as mad. I hadn't heard of him before now either...just seems like a character you wouldn't kill off.

Is that really a valid observation though? I mean, in the context of the movie, ALL the mutants are a "minority". Subdividing based on skin color is no more valid in that situation than subdividing based upon powers.

Then we have the fact that there were 3 that switched sides, Angel, Raven, and Erik. Of those three, only one would be considered a "minority" by current definition. One of the remainder was white and the other saw herself as a white girl. Raven would technically be "blue", of which 50% went evil and 50% stayed good.

On the good team, we have Darwin and Beast. One is a traditional "minority" and the other became one of two people on the planet that shared that skin color.

You could even say that there was a third minority that stayed good...namely the ginger.

Mystique is a ginger >.>

Unintentionally hilarious. "Those don't exist because I haven't heard of them."

I keep wondering if his death was a joke. I mean, back then, in sci-fi flicks the black guy was always the first to die.

Robert Townshend has a bit about it:
"Private Johnson! Go down that long, dark tunnel with the slime coming out of it and check it out!"
"Yassuh! I be right back! Ahhhhhh-!"

Maybe he'll come back in the sequel, though. Since his power is to adapt, perhaps he adapted into an energy being.

Indie comic book writer/artist Allison Bechdel's "Movie Test", now called "The Bechdel Test". From her 1985 comic book, whose title would get censored here.

I think the first one also specified that they had to have names.

Edit: added the link.